Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs

Preview of the Chapters

The first part of this book provides readers with an overview of the nature of—and assumptions, methods, and tools common in—qualitative research studies. The remaining three parts of this text focus on fourteen distinct, rich, and varied qualitative methodologies. Part Two is a grouping characterized by its discipline-specific roots, reflecting approaches that come from the recognized areas of biography, history, anthropology, and a variation of ethnographic research, autoethnography, which employs two distinct disciplines. Part Three of the book contains chapters reflecting approaches that further blend recognized areas of research. In Part Four, the reader is provided with five chapters that address methodologies characterized ...